Charles Gayle no longer attracts the attention he did in the late 80s, when the onetime street musician became the face of a new strain of energy music. Gayle’s ferocious work on tenor saxophone demanded a lot from his rhythm sections; he pushed his huge sound into the sax’s upper register with wild overblowing or swerved around its bottom with fat, volatile tones.…
Charles Gayle no longer attracts the attention he did in the late 80s, when the onetime street musician became the face of a new strain of energy music. Gayle’s ferocious work on tenor saxophone demanded a lot from his rhythm sections; he pushed his huge sound into the sax’s upper register with wild overblowing or swerved around its bottom with fat, volatile tones.…